Editing Fatima (section)

==Main Attributes== 
[[File:Fatima 4.jpg|thumbnail| Fatima by Iranian master of painting and miniatures, Mahmoud Farshchian ]]
In fact, light and Fatima are always linked: at the anthropogonic stage already mentioned, in Shiʿite commentaries on the Light verse, and at her birth and later in her life, especially when she prayed and meditated. She is said to have been “the source of the light on the horizon,” and it is for that reason that she is called “the Confluence of the Two Lights”, <ref>majmaʿ al-nurayn, i.e., those of exoteric prophecy and of the esoteric imamate; Marandi, pp. 4-19.</ref> and that her most famous epithet was al-Zahra. <ref>Resplendent; Hussain, pp. 46 ff.; Ibn Shahrashub, pp. 106 ff.</ref> Ibn Shahrashub <ref>pp. 133 ff.</ref> listed more than seventy honorary names for Fatima, among which the most common are Maryam Kobra (the supreme Mary), Batul, <ref>lit., “Virgin,” defined by the Prophet as “she who never menstruates”; Ibn Babuya, 1385/1966, p. 181.</ref> and the mysterious Omm Abiha (Mother of her father), which has been variously interpreted.

In addition to light, the life of Fatima was characterized by piety; sadness over the destinies of her relatives and children; courage; obedience to God, her father, and her husband; and initiatory knowledge. <ref>ʿelm; for this translation, see Amir-Moezzi, pp. 174-99; on Fatima’s knowledge, cf. Hasan al-ʿAskari, pp. 221-22; Ibn Babuya, 1404/1984, p, 596; Ibn Shahrashub, pp. 102-4.</ref> She is the guardian of two of the secret and sacred books of the immaculate ones, Ketab Fatima and Moshaf Fatima, which may in fact be only a single book, and two secret tablets, of white pearl and emerald respectively. <ref>Amir-Moezzi, pp. 188-89; Kohlberg, pp. 302-05.</ref> Miracles resulting from her superior nature, piety, and esoteric knowledge are frequently attributed to her. <ref>Ibn Shahrashub, pp. 16 ff.; Borsi, pp. 85-86; Majlesi, pp. 19-81.</ref>

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